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Powering Down On Authority (English and Dutch).

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: 3012 BR Rotterdam : Witte de Withe, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (62 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789491435317
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Powering Down On Authority (English and Dutch)Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Paternal Overdrive and Traumatic Invasiveness -- The Fissures -- A Phenomenological Approach to "This Authority of the Father" -- Distinct Hierarchies of Authority -- What Was Authority? -- What Is Called Father? -- The Model of the Power-Father -- Narcissus and the Irretrievable Breakage of Identity -- The Incalculable Joys of Democracy -- Revolutionary Promise and Democratic Practice -- Biography -- Colophon -- Witte de With Staff -- Voorblad -- Titelpagina -- Inhoud -- Vaderlijke overdrive en traumatisch ingrijpen -- De scheuren -- Een fenomenologische benadering van 'deze Autoriteit van de Vader' -- Verschillende autoritaire hiérarchieén -- Wat was autoriteit? -- Wat heet er Vader? -- Het model van de Machtsvader -- Narcissus en de onherstelbare identiteitsbreuk -- De ontelbare geneugten van democratie -- Revolutionaire belofte en democratische praktijk -- Biografieën -- Colofon -- Staf Witte de With.
Summary: Powering Down on Authority is Avital Ronell's response to Witte de With's invitation for her to reflect, in lengthy essay form, on the questions of power and authority in our time.
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Powering Down on Authority is Avital Ronell's response to Witte de With's invitation for her to reflect, in lengthy essay form, on the questions of power and authority in our time.

Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Paternal Overdrive and Traumatic Invasiveness -- The Fissures -- A Phenomenological Approach to "This Authority of the Father" -- Distinct Hierarchies of Authority -- What Was Authority? -- What Is Called Father? -- The Model of the Power-Father -- Narcissus and the Irretrievable Breakage of Identity -- The Incalculable Joys of Democracy -- Revolutionary Promise and Democratic Practice -- Biography -- Colophon -- Witte de With Staff -- Voorblad -- Titelpagina -- Inhoud -- Vaderlijke overdrive en traumatisch ingrijpen -- De scheuren -- Een fenomenologische benadering van 'deze Autoriteit van de Vader' -- Verschillende autoritaire hiérarchieén -- Wat was autoriteit? -- Wat heet er Vader? -- Het model van de Machtsvader -- Narcissus en de onherstelbare identiteitsbreuk -- De ontelbare geneugten van democratie -- Revolutionaire belofte en democratische praktijk -- Biografieën -- Colofon -- Staf Witte de With.

Powering Down on Authority is Avital Ronell's response to Witte de With's invitation for her to reflect, in lengthy essay form, on the questions of power and authority in our time.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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